Malawi Post Corp take buses off the road: ‘Passengers safety first’
Following the accident that happened on the 19th January in Ntcheu,the management of Malawi Post Corporations has with immediately effect decided to take the post buses off the road up to Friday January 24,2020.
Malawi Post Corporation spokesperson Ida Nkolimbo said this has been done to enable the corporation re-take steps and actions to ensure the safety of passengers.
“I can also assure our customers that all the drivers that we employed are well qualified but because the accidents have happened a short period of time we feel our people be assuared of their safety.
“We just want to make sure the buses should be re-checked.We put safety first to our customers,” she said.
Nkolimbo added that it should also be noted that this exercise is being re-done despite having it concluded prior to the services introduction in view of the importance of passengers safety which the corporation upholds highly.
“The pull out of the bus service is meant to afford the corporation a number of things to be done like allowing an independent assessor to re-run the buses road fitness test,” she said.
Nkolimbo also assuared the public that the corporation is committed to rectify all gaps that the tests may reveal before the resumption of the service on Friday, 24th January.
Nkolimbo also said for the Ntcheu accident there were no fatalities recorded apart from two women who were treated at Phalula Health Centre for minor injuries.
The first accident for Post Coach took place last year in November at Nkhamenya in Kasungu.
vuto ndiloti ma driver munalemba ma cadet amene alibe experience yoyenda pa nseu
Me SOSOSO Coaches basi. Timely, drivers are disciplined, sober. SOSOSO coaches don’t exceed 100Kms not that they cannot, but becoz our roads are too bad for a huge machine like a bus to cruise at 150. Vuto la ma Post Coaches they want to make a name that they are the fastest buses in Malawi. But speed thrills but it also kills, especially on our roads in Malawi which are the poorest in the whole world. I do not know what RTD and the Ministry of Transp will do about this, keeping in mind that it is only 2 months ago when another of these coaches was also involved in fatal accident. The government must ground these buses, same as it was done with the Boeing Max 8 aeroplanes, till they are fully certified roadworthy and the drivers are also scrutinised by a competent, independent assessor.
The company has to be suspended. The drivers are careless. They overspeed
Aziyenda masana okhaokha.Usiku its very dangerous.
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You should first evaluate the management team for buses. Are they competent or they were just shifted within the system retain them? How do they recruit drivers? What sort of training or coaching do drovers under go? How about defensive driving skills? Let me say here that I confident that the buses are certainly in good condition but human errors is supreme in this cases. What working conditions are there? Do driver have ample time to rest? Are the drivers sensitive to safety or not? What’s the power of passengers to report any overspeeding, careless overtaking etc? Finally good to ask your staff to say prayers before driving. Not necessarily in the buses but even in private. Make it a point to prays – transport business could provoke jealousy from evil competitors out there!
Employ drivers with 5 years plus driving experience.Avoid mwana wachemwali and from home employment.
even with 15 years experience you can still be prone to accidents
It’s the general practice internationally that organizations such as MPC should own buses. Go to Zimbabwe and even in Europe, you may Google. companies such as MPC have what is called universal service obligation. for instance, they have to carry two or three letters to Misuku in Chitipa
and you can imagine how much that costs. By venturing into bus business they wanted to ensure that as they carry mail they should also get something from the passengers and subsidise on their operations. Accident do happen buy maybe they need to keep on retraining their drivers
Nkhani ndiya simple:
1. All buses must be fitted with remote car tracking system and must have maximum speed say 80/100 km/r. Anything beyond that speed for a bus and our roads is an accident in waiting.
2. All drivers must be truly qualified with extra defensive experience. Ma driver ambiri ama buses and trucks didnt go for required training..amangopanga upgrade from minibuses after paying ndalama ku RTD.
3. Fatigue Management. Ma drivers wo chonde must have a very efficient fatigue management program, ambiri mumangowapitisa kumatrip without looking at their physical being, ena amayenda akusinza chifukwa chotopa.
4. Drivers must be breatherlysed asananyamuke and upon arrival (optional).
Paja ku Malawi kuno timathamangila satanic kapena zamu anthu zonsezi ndanenazi simuziona…
Kuchuluka mbuli zopita kusukulu pa Malawi. Anthu anakuuzani pompa kuti zitayeni izi. Koma kusamva. How many times have we seen things like this?
It is the same Chinese company that produces all these buses including those of your competitors. Buses have no problems, asses your drivers
Almost all drivers recruited have no experience for driving buses…rather they were recruited based on their relationship with mabwana a post office. some of the drivers were taxi drivers ….
How were the drivers recruited were they tested by qualified independent personnel. The buses are ockay re assess your drivers
This girl is shit.She is very busy defending drivers and even their Admin. just young and busy giving money to dpp. Nkolimbo you will never be employed elsewhere take note for you are too SHIT.
Mmmmm walakwa chani? Kapena anakukanani chibwenzi. Frustration chili chonse
aaaaa inenso ndikudabwa kuti mai yo walakwa chani?coz iye wayankhula pa ntchito yake koma mukumulalatira as if wanena zabodza
They need “black box”
In December I was driving from Mzuzu at night at around 100km/hr. I was overtaken by Post Office bus in Chikangawa going at an extremely high speed. Your drivers are reckless and do not care about the lives they carry. It’s time you put trackers in your buses and monitor speed. It’s obvious your drivers have no discipline on the road. Save the lives of Malawians or else your company is going to die a natural death.
Thank you very much for taking out these Buses on our roads, they are a risk to your customers, from Over speeding and unnecessary breakdowns including embarassingly running out of diesel on the road.
my Questions would be like:
1) did you buy bland new buses, maybe fairly used or complete scraps which where reconditioned?
2) Did you have expertise in purchasing your buses
3) how was your recruitment process of Drivers and the whole team running operations of these buses?
4) the Team in-charge running these buses, do they have competency in passenger transport?
5)how Often do you Service these Buses?
you have a very big marketing strategy to conduct in order to win back the lost customer trust..
Achemwali, tell the people the truth of the matter and not full packs of lies
Do you know the truth? Tell us iweyo
Yes the buses are okay it’s her and her friends in management team that employed poor drivers. She can’t defend them because we see their poor performance on the road everyday. They the kind people who will deliberately throw a wrist watch into water just because it’s written water resistant. That is the truth you Twitter.
Could be a decision that will kill the bus business for Post Office. Much as ethically that was the best decision, but your competitors will use the same to hit you hard.
I believe it is the conduct of the drivers………over speeding, you have to put trackers in your buses to check on speed limit compliance
It’s not the buses. It’s human error. I have met these buses on the road and it’s obvious they over speed. The road fitness tests of the buses will not reveal any problems
bad farmer blaming instrument….. yes its the buses, check them just keep checking them don’t bring them on the road
Kasambeni. Anzanu akuchesulani.
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Nkolimbo had the chancy to explain what actually happened. Pliz don’t come out defending yourself and what you want to do. Tell ppo what led to the bus accident
Nepotism in recruiting drivers. The drivers doesn’t have experience since they are employed on nepotism regardless of hands on experience.
This has nothing to do with buses roadworthiness. Review all your drivers CVs on post experience.
KKKKKKK inu munangolembana ma cadet nokha nokha ndiye mukuganiza kuti ma driver angakhale serious ????
Ntchito zongolembana pa chibale ndi choncho !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.